Turistas

The action of Turistas takes the form of an outer, physical journey – a vacation – but the essential travels that takes place in the film are nevertheless internal, mental journeys into the protagonists’ selves. With a mood that is almost threatening the film is reminiscent of the genre of classic slasher films, director Scherson is mainly concerned with subverting the expectations of conventional genre cinema. One of the most important story elements occur right at the beginning of the film, and it is this mental foundation that the main character Carla must try to work through. The journeys of the film appear in many ways as pure escapism, from problems, partners, identity, the very core of the modern self.
Turistas is both a cinematic analysis of the psychology of modern man and a highly psychologising film experience. The music, tender and dissonant at the same time, contributes to an unnerving mood that Scherson knows how to exploit, with visual devices of nature and darkness. The forest, fauna and lake where the action takes place are themselves threatened from the outside by urban and polluting forces, something that becomes a subtle parallel to the inner conflicts some of the characters feel threatened by. lab